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1 edit | Waste of tax dollors Obama has sent a 14 million dollar project to Alaska through his stimulus funds package.Ouzinkie is a village which has a total size of 7.7 square miles, 6 square miles of which being land. Its population is approximately 200 people and it is located on Spruce Island.
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High-speed delivery
$1.25 billion award President Obama announced during a town hall meeting at the University of Tampa on Thursday. No one wants this train
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This government is not working for us. Those 2 projects are a huge waste of money, on things that are not needed. The train project was even being protested by people that are suppose to be passengers! I fear the future 
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Yorktown, VA | And these kinds of projects just started with Obama? As long we are arguing which party is the "good" one we are all going to hell in a handbasket because neither of these parties give one flying f**k what happens to this country, their pockets are lined and thats all that matters.
If those wonderful Republicans had given us term limits, a balanced budget amendment and the line item veto to the president we'd be in better shape now, hell Ms Pelosi and Mr Ried would have been kicked out by those limits by now.
In case you don't get what I'm referring to, back a few years the Republican members and candidates for both houses signed a "Contract with America" promising those things and many others, but did they deliver once elected?? Yeah, that's what I thought.....
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There's always this one, lest we forget:
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ModusI hate smartassery on forumsPremium
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said by Modus:Obama has sent a 14 million dollar project to Alaska through his stimulus funds package.Ouzinkie is a village which has a total size of 7.7 square miles, 6 square miles of which being land. Its population is approximately 200 people and it is located on Spruce Island. » campbellbrown.blogs.cnn.com/2010···hpt=Sbin they're building a new runway.. the current runway is 2000' and the new one is 3000'... it's a rural area with poor weather. it'll have a greater chance of landing issues and they'll have to use smaller planes thus making it even more dagerous. I don't see an issue with spending the money
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| The issue is what they spend the money on. That town doesnt even have traffic lights! And its not dangerous cause no one goes in or out of there often enough. That "project" is no high priority. And neither is that high speed rail in tampa that no one wants or will ride.
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kudos:10 | they probably get monthly or bi-weekly shipments of mail and supplies (groceries etc). This would be occurring every month of the year. Yes, there's only a few people that live there BUT it's still a "small" amount for how long it'll be used for
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| said by Modus:ok but in any case spending that money on that project right now is not important. I'm sure that money can be used for something else that can have a greater impact. The thing that's amazing is how it will be just a *gravel* landing strip for $14 million dollars?
The labor in that area should be cheap. A half-mile of gravel should cost less than $1 million.
It sounds like they're importing gravel and machinery (plus operators) from more expensive areas. So, the stimulus will be for those areas (and the mariners who transport everything).
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1 edit | yes.. you'll buy the gravel for 1 million and how does it get there?... how much do you think it'll cost to have it flown to that location?... sounds like the only way to access it is by flying after all.
How many people that live in that community can drive or are licensed to drive a car let alone a dump truck, grader, steam roller etc. ?
Labour should be cheap... do you think they're using shovels?... sure if they're hiring people to use a shovel or a pick axe and if you don't mind the project taking a hundred years.
This project is NOT in an urban area.. you have to look at the logistics.
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googled the village
»maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&source···c=A&sa=X
looks like shipping it in would be possible BUT the cost of shipping that amount of gravel??
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possibly.. but it will have to be done eventually and that doesn't mean it's a waste of tax dollars. More likely than not it'll be more expensive to do it later.
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| you must be benefiting in some way. I see you are in bc and you are not far from there. So as i said before I'm sure that money can be used for something else that can have a greater impact.
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2 edits | 1,793 km... 1 114.12 miles...
yup they're right next door 
you live in florida.. close to mexico, you must be mexican
You do realize that BC alone is
944735 square kilometres
that's 1/10th the size of the entire USA.... if you live in the middle of the province... nothing is that close
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